Government Schools and Competition

Government Schools and Competition

The government school monopoly is an expensive failure. As I wrote last year. If Winston Churchill was commenting on America’s government schools instead of the Royal Air Force, he would have said, “never have so many paid so much to...
School Choice and Civil Rights, Part I

School Choice and Civil Rights, Part I

In 2009, I groused that modern Democrats were repeating George Wallace’s awful policy of blocking educational opportunities for minority children. Based on this video, the folks at Unleash Prosperity Now are even more upset. That’s a...
The Most Heartwarming Tweet of 2023

The Most Heartwarming Tweet of 2023

For 2023, we have the IMF and CNN in a contest for the year’s most economically illiterate tweet and we have a strange entry for the year’s most half-right tweet. Today, let’s enjoy what will probably be the year’s most heartwarming...
Class Warfare and School Choice

Class Warfare and School Choice

No matter how you slice the data (federal income tax, all federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes, total taxes, etc), rich people shoulder a disproportionate share of America’s fiscal burden. Indeed, the United States has a more “progressive”...